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JB and Phil have a big show lined up with Alex Jones of TheBigSpur.com up first. They look at the men's basketball team ahead of them hitting the road for Missouri. Alex and the guys look at CMB, and how his role has evolved over the season as well as who can step up to help support his efforts as the season draws to a close. They look at the baseball series with Alex before he gives way to Mike M...

JB and Phil open things up with a recap of the sports weekend. Baseball and Softball score another sweep, the Women's Basketball team roll Vandy, and the Men's hoops team notch their first SEC win against Texas. John Whittle joins the conversation, and he and JB talk some baseball as rivalry week is upon us. They talk the pitching staff, and what can be gained and learned from the upcoming series...

Through the years one of the excuses, and it is now definitely an excuse, for South Carolina not achieving athletics excellence across the board, particularly in football, has been location. JC Shurburtt takes a machete to that argument. Plus, a winning weekend of Gamecock sports and the 2026 quarterback recruiting board shrinks by one. Don't forget to support NIL by buying coffee (or popcorn) www...

Nine SEC games are on the way. The seeding for the college football playoff is weird and will probably be weird in 2025 over money. JC Shurburtt expands on his thoughts from Coffee about how college baseball recruiting back in the day is similar to other sports now (nobody is thinking about the money part of it as baseball has had to divide up 11.7 scholarships). Lots of fun as always on a Friday....

Raphael Esparrza is live from Las Vegas and gets you set with some great plays for the weekend. Stuart Lake pops in with Jamie Bradford to go in-depth on the 5-0 Gamecock Baseball team that has a home series with Milwaukee this weekend.

A glance back nearly 25 years to what a certain baseball coach and his loyal talent-finding assistant did to build South Carolina into the most consistent program in the country that annually competed for championships and you can see some similarities as to how Gamecock football coach Shane Beamer and his staff are doing things in football during the early years of the NIL and Transfer Portal era...

It's the rare double guest day on Inside the Gamecocks The Show as South Carolina football Director of Player Personnel Darren Uscher talks Gamecock Football Recruiting for 50 plus minutes. Mike Morgan of ESPN and the SEC Network chops it up with JC Shurburtt and Mad Dog in the second hour.

Jamie Bradford has Chad Holbrook in to co-host early. In the second hour, undefeated South Carolina softball coach Ashley Chastain Woodard joins the show to talk about her team's fast start to the 2025 season.

Joe Macheca is joined by Tyler Head of 107.5-FM to discuss UCONN's shellacking of the South Carolina women's basketball team, 87-58, at the Colonial Life Arena in Columbia. Was it just not Carolina's day and UCONN was read hot? Or is there more to it than that. Joe and Tyler have you covered.

JC Shurburtt dives into "The Big Weekend" for the Class of 2026. As of today, four months before it begins, South Carolina has nine outstanding football prospects set to make their official visits to Columbia that weekend, including one of the top quarterbacks in the country, two elite corners and many more. Plus, some housekeeping notes on Inside the Gamecocks, some baseball chatter specifically...

JC Shurburtt and Phil Mad Dog Mullinax have a candid discussion in this episode of Inside the Gamecocks The Show. First, South Carolina has big expectations in multiple sports. Not every school does. That's a good thing but the key is for Gamecock athletics to figure out what works to meet those expectations. Then, our thoughts turn toward New Orleans where the Big Ten and the SEC are meeting to f...

It's Wednesday and that means Wil Crowe is in to co-host. Hale McGranahan of TheBigSpur.com joins JB to break down the latest from the recruiting trail and the Gamecock football program.

Under head coach Shane Beamer, South Carolina has had great success with transfer portal additions from non-Power 4 levels of college football. Will this continue in 2025? JC Shurburtt breaks down the five players coming from that level and has a big question that needs to be answered about each. Plus, go to gamecockcoffee.com and purchase some Rise N Shine New Orleans Roast to support Garnet Trus...

Former South Carolina football captain John Strickland joins The Morning Show to talk football and other sports. Alex Jones of TheBigSpur.com is in with the Gamecock Smorgasbord where he touches on everything. Can the Gamecocks get their first SEC win in men's basketball tonight?

JB welcomes Mike Morgan of ESPN to The Morning Show, and dive into the weekend around Ray Tanner and Gamecocks Baseball. John Whittle joins, and he gives his thoughts on the baseball team sweeping the Sacred Heart Pioneers to open their new season. They get into the women's and men's basketball losses, and end on a high note talking some Softball. JB and Mike give their thoughts on the latest new...

As part of "DLine Heaven", the state of South Carolina is known for producing players in the trenches and on the edges on that side of the ball. What it has not historically been known for is producing top offensive line talent. JC Shurburtt explains how the state is on a heater when it comes to producing in the trenches on offense and how that is good for the Gamecocks. Plus, a review of the week...

The second half of the Inside the Gamecocks South Carolina Baseball Opening Day special leads off with an hour-long interview with the legend- former head coach and AD Ray Tanner. Justin Smoak, Grayson Greiner, Blake Cooper and more Jim Toman also round out the episode.

It's the annual Inside the Gamecocks South Carolina Baseball Opening Day Special, originating live from Founders Park with Jamie Bradford, Mad Dog Mullinax and JC Shurburtt. Part One Guests: South Carolina head baseball coach Paul Mainieri, associate head coach Monte Lee, Gamecock great Drew Meyer, color analyst and coach Stuart Lake, TheBigSpur.com's John Whittle and former Gamecock assistant Jim...

With eight players off of South Carolina's defense being invited to the NFL Scouting Combine and two more long-time veterans in Boogie Huntley and Debo Williams also departing the program, there will be a lot of new faces on that side of the football for the Gamecocks in 2025. JC Shurburtt breaks down the possibilities for a reload. Also, Ray Tanner and women's basketball polls on Coffee.

To get you ready for South Carolina Baseball Opening Day 2025, the Late Night Gamecock Matt Anderson and the Pride of Hampton County Alex Jones of TheBigSpur.com welcome Gamecock Baseball Guru John Whittle of TheBigSpur.com to give a final all-encompassing preview of the 2025 season, the first under new head coach Paul Mainieri.

The new U.S. administration has rescinded the outgoing administrations "Title IX" guidance that stated colleges should split revenue share and NIL between men's and women's sports. Thankfully common sense prevailed given the reality of what revenue share and NIL actually are. JC and Phil talk about it. Also, what is up with college coaches wanting to cancel spring games? JC made a delicious pot ro...

It's Carolina Baseball Opening Day Eve 2025 and associate AD for grounds Clark Cox joins Jamie Bradford to discuss all things related to playing surfaces and facilities. It's always a great conversation. It would not be baseball season if College of Charleston head coach and Chin Music host Chad Holbrook were not around. He co-hosts in the second hour today. Join us from 10-2 tomorrow live for the...

Some of the best players in South Carolina football history have come from the state of Georgia, including Heisman Trophy winner George Rogers, the program's only Pro Football Hall of Famer Sterling Sharpe and the greatest quarterback of all time Connor Shaw. It's as important of a state to recruit well from as there is for the Gamecocks, but it's only been recently that during this post-2000 era...

South Carolina lost its second game of the season on Monday, 66-62, to Texas in Austin. The Gamecocks have Florida Thursday night and then their annual showdown with UCONN at Colonial Life Arena on Sunday. Joe Macheca of TheBigSpur.com hosts and breaks down the latest from Dawn Staley and her program and more on The Walk Through.

Friday is going to be a special day for South Carolina Gamecock athletics for multiple reasons. JC Shurburtt and Phil Mad Dog Mullinax discuss Ray Tanner who will be honored. Also, this and that on multiple sports including football running back recruiting,